The Missing Piece of Joy

In Ecclesiastes 3:4, “A time to weep; And a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance”. The author of this verse knew that in life there will be times that will bring us down in our lives. We sometimes get so down that depression takes over in our lives and affect our relationships, our salvation “representation” among men, and our representations at times. Yes, there is a time where it is okay to cry and mourn; however, there is a time to laugh. We have at times a missing piece of laughter in our lives.

It seems that God has a humor about things. I have always been told that don’t ever say never on doing something because God will show you that your wrong. Yes, He does have humor at our lives, our mouths at times, and other aspects of us. I don’t know about you, but I have blond moments at times. My parents make fun of these moments. I will do things the long way around of things to get tasks at hand to complete, but it does get finish. In the same way, it seems that God does the same thing in our lives. He has been through hard and tough times in my life and college life. At one point, I ran away from what God had me to do in life. He made a way to prove to me that my dream college wasn’t for me. I can see Him just shaking His head at me during this time. Again, I decided about a relationship with a guy who said he was a Christian; however, he’s behavior and his “love” toward me wasn’t a Christ love. He had all the character that was opposite of Christ; however, there was good characteristics with him and that’s what made me stay in the relationship as long as I did. I thought that I could help lead him to Christ, but I couldn’t do that task. I have learned the hard way that you can’t help in change people, only Jesus can change people. Yes, I cried and went through the mourning process. Now I can write this and look back on the good time we had but the bad times too. I said all this to point out that God uses the time of mourning to better us. He gave me joy again.

God gives us the strength to make through hard times. God gives us joy in time of mourning. As Ecclesiastes 3:4 says, “A time to weep, And a time to laugh; A time to mourn, And a time to dance”. God will make it where you can laugh at things that has happened in your life when you look back on what God has brought you through. Laughter is a result of joy. In Nehemiah 8:10, “Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”” God will turn our mourning into dance, and our sadness will be turned into laughter.

Prayer:

Father,

I pray that you fill the parts of our hearts that has sadness and turn it into dancing and laughter. Give us the strength to make it through everything that life throws at us. Thank you for providing the strength to make it through the time of need and willingness to fight through our depression in life.

In Jesus’ name,

Amen

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